Frozen, sharp air wraps the fresh snow in its cold breath.
Blue sky & white snow bounce together under the bright noon sun.

At first the wind is cold & wet & too mean to snow.
Later, as if changing it's mind, it begins to snow heavily.
Black blotches, probably birds, whip overhead & out of sight.
Most sounds are silenced by the sleepy blankets of snow.
Two big dark dogs playfighting in the snow.

Snow floating at first,then falling, now angling its way downwards towards the blanket of freshly fallen snow that blankets everything in sight.
Red rose hips, puckered & dry as old prunes, clinging to the wet branches of its mother host of a bush.
Shaggy sparrows huddled together, shaking off snow like swimmers just out of the water.

The sky slides from grey to blue.
The patchy alley cat walks his beaten path through the snow.
Birds do their work.

Cold rain & sharp wind opens the day.
The mountain is wrapped, shrouded, veiled in low thick clouds.
Mist descends.
A single maple has turned itself on, red & yellow & flecked with gold against the flat, wet green mountain.

The morning rain pauses for a moment, and veiled sunlight takes the stage.
A seagull pokes around in the muddy grass, looking for breakfast I suppose.
The rain turns itself off & on with no rhymes nor reasons throughout the long, gray day.

A flurry of sparrows rushing from one tree to another, like a gust of wind.
Warm sunlight & clear blue skies spread themselves evenly & lovingly across the day.
A couple of trees starting to yellow & wane.
A black cat with green eyes shuns me in the alley.
Sunlight bakes the insides of my bare forearms at its zenith.
Three sparrows return for a visit later in the day.

Spooky morning fog, burnt off by 10 AM.
Blue morning glories with dusty yellow centers.
The green force of the life-matrix, fully.
Giant yellow hibiscus blossoms.
Pretty pink flowers cascading from above.
Giant palm leaves like elephant ears filtering the morning sunlight.
Papyrus, spiky & erect.
Peace & oxygen & sunlight abounding about.
1000 green sparkling leaves of 1000 different plants.
A magnificent, stately Jade tree twisted into a kingly configuration.
White flowers, yellow flowers, red flowers, pink flowers, blue flowers, all served on a vast bed of green leaves.

Saturday morning sunlight sparkling across the choppy waves of the river.
Black sesame seeds floating on the surface of the water.
A blade of long river grass floats by under the water.
Whitecaps & their waves spice the surface of the water.
A tall, lone beech tree has begun to yellow, announcing its avant-garde tendencies to the rest of the trees, still green.
Wind about the trees & grass.

The river gurgles softly.
Light sparkles silently.
A dusty grasshopper on the dusty path.
Long, wet grass under foot.
Quietude.